Alejandro Bia

Alejandro Bia is deputy director of the Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science and a researcher at the Operations Research Center (CIO), both at the Miguel Hernández University (Elche, Spain).

He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Alicante, a MSc and a BS in Computer Science from ORT University, a Diploma in Computing and Information Systems from Oxford University, and a Universitary Expert in Technological Innovation in Education from the Miguel Hernández University.

Apart from UMH, he has also lectured for the Cultural Heritage Digitization Course at FUNED (2013-2015), the Master in Digital Humanities (2005-2011), and the Master in Web Technology (2005-2007), at the University of Castilla La Mancha, for the Department of Languages and Information Systems (2002-2004) and the Department of Fundamentals of Economic Analysis (2002) of the University of Alicante, and at ORT University (1990-1996).

He is a frequent instructor of XML-TEI workshops and seminars in, Austria, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

He is a long-time member of the DH community (since 1999), and has being elected member of the TEI Council for three periods (2002-2004, 2004-2006 and 2017-2018) and of the Executive Committee of the former Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, now EADH, also for two periods (2004-2008 and 2008-2011). Currently, he is the secretary of the HDH association (Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas), and a member of the TEI Council (Technical Council of the Text Encoding Initiative), the AIPO (Iberoamerican Association for Human Computer Interaction), and the Spanish chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC-ES).